A Brief History Of Drones

The Nation:

It was ten years ago this month, on February 4, 2002, that the CIA first used an unmanned Predator drone in a targeted killing. The strike was in Paktia province in Afghanistan, near the city of Khost. The intended target was Osama bin Laden, or at least someone in the CIA had thought so.

Read the whole story: The Nation

Comments

[halfpricefaustian]

03:03 PM on 02/10/2012

Drones typically fly without any running lights, obviously enough. Now they want to allow the use of drones in the US by federal and state governments as well as private owners. Does anyone know if drones flying over US soil will be required to use running lights?

[IfIonlyknew]

11:01 AM on 02/10/2012

A ten year old project and they are telling us the history of it ??? That is the way to right the history
that you want everyone to hear.